Special Collections and Archives

Originally published in The American on 16 June 1995. Photocopy part of Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education media clips compiled by the Public Relations Office

Newspaper article "Poet at peace... man at war!" by George Henderson

DP/A/4/5
Item
19 June 1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Citizen. Reports on the opening of the Dymock Poets Archive and Study Centre and features Dr Philip Martin, Head of Humanities

Press release "Poetry Study Centre opens in Cheltenham"

DP/A/4/4
Item
5 June 1995

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Deposit relating to Mr F E Tanner

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Tanner, Frank E

Photograph of schoolboys, probably St Martin's Bradley

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Taken by R Weatherley Photographer, Birmingham

Photographs of “St. Martin’s Standard” and “St. Martin’s, Bradley” schoolchildren, with some unspecified. One photograph of a man has description “J. B. Vuillaume” on reverse. Also interior of a church marked “St. Martin’s, Bradley”

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Letter accompanying D9 deposit written by Tony Cave

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Documents and Photographs

DP/TM/2
Subseries
1913 - c.1935

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Books

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Subseries
1911-1960

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Tanya Moiseiwitsch Series

DP/TM
Series
1911 - 1960

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Moiseiwitsch, Tanya

Writing of Rowland Watson

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File
c.1955 - c.1960s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes handwritten notes and typescripts "A Remarkable Pair: Bob Saunders and Geoffrey Williams", "Helen Thomas" written for The Times after her death, and "Lord Horder" written after his death

Vernon Bartlett

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File
c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Typescript poems "Sunset on the Lake", "The Song of the Wind", "Souvenirs of Florence" attributed to Vernon Bartlett. Also includes a note by Rowland Watson stating he lived with Bartlett in Berlin from 1913-1914

Miscellaneous

DP/RW/8
Subseries
c.1912 - 1975

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Various

DP/RW/7/3
File
1944, 1946

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Single letter from E H W Meyerstein offering sympathy for her loneliness, quote from John Stoddart [friend of Wordsworth written 1801] handwritten by Rowland for Sanchia on her marriage and compliments card from Lyn and Sanchia Metcalfe on their wedding day, 6 December 1944

Letters to Sanchia Watson

DP/RW/7
Subseries
1842, 1944-1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Various

DP/RW/6/7
File
12 November 1940, 29 November 1970 - 28 October 1983

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

One-off correspondence from various sources

Myfanwy Thomas

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File
19 April 1967 - 6 March 1984

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Refers to tribute Helen Thomas by Rowland Watson at her funeral. Includes Victoria Wine newsletter with piece on Edward Thomas and copy of letter from Alan T Foreman to Myfanwy regarding her childhood at Otford

Letters to Cherry Watson

DP/RW/6
Subseries
1940, 1967-1984

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Various

DP/RW/5/22
File
20 April 1937 - 22 January 1968

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

One-off and general correspondence. Includes pencil annotations
Letters from:

L J Packington
Hayward Martin
Celia Sparger
Sanchia Watson
John W Sich
Joan Hassall
Frank Francis
T C Skeat
Nathaniel Micklem
Mary M Lago
Esther de Waal
Joan A Roebling

Myfanwy Thomas

DP/RW/5/17
File
16 May 1965 - 11 November 1968

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes some correspondence from Helen Thomas to Watson. Includes family news and discussions on Edward Thomas

Letters to Rowland Watson

DP/RW/5
Subseries
1929-1968

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Typescripts of letters from E H W Meyerstein to Walter de la Mare

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Item
c.1956

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Recipients referred to as "de la Mare" and "Jack". Letters dated 11 August 1938 - 5 November 1946. Includes covering letter from Watson to his daughter Sanchia and son-in-law Lyn accompanying the typescript which he describes as "Eddie's letters to De La M", dated 9 July 1956

Execution of Meyerstein's will

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File
28 November 1952 - 21 May 1968

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Documents relating to E H W Meyerstein's death and the role of Rowland Watson as executor of his will. Includes:

Correspondence from John Farquharson Limited Business Manager and Philip Larkin whilst Librarian at the University of Hull

Detailed valuation lists of Meyerstein's estate and books and papers held in the crypt of Godrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford

Newspaper cuttings regarding the Meyerstein library sale

Publishers agreements between the executors of the Meyerstein estate regarding the royalties for his works "Phoebe Thirsk", "Of My Early Life", "Selected Poems of E H W Meyerstein", "Some Letters of E H W Meyerstein", "Verse Letters to Five Friends" and "Bollond"

Information on the Chatterton Lecture at the British Academy funded by a bequest from the Meyerstein estate

E H W Meyerstein

DP/RW/4
Subseries
1930-1968

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Edward Harry William Meyerstein (b.11 August 1889 d.12 September 1952) was an English writer and scholar

Photocopy of Edward Thomas Memorial Fund accounts year ending 31 December 1937

DP/RW/3/5
Item
(c.1960s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

£245 10s 4d received in subscriptions. Compiled by Gibson, Harris, Prince & Co. Chartered Accountants

Information leaflet "A Memorial to Edward Thomas" by the Edward Thomas Memorial Fund Executive Committee

DP/RW/3/3
Item
c.1930s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Details the establishment of the fund and lists the Executive Committee as Eleanor Farjeon, John L Haines, Clifford Bax, Ian MacAlister, R F Cholmeley, William Rothenstein, Walter de la Mare and R L Watson

Letters regarding the Edward Thomas Memorial on the Shoulder of Mutton, Steep

DP/RW/3/1
File
5 March 1936 - 28 January 1941

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes letter from Ezra Pound against the memorial
Other letters from:
Wilfred E Baderley
Algernon Blackwood
P D Coleridge
T C Duncan Williams
Lord Horder
Galloway Kyle
Irene McArthur

Edward Thomas Memorial at Steep